1. Discourse analysis has its origins in classical rhetoric but declined as an academic discipline. It reemerged in the 1960s through structuralist analyses of narratives, myths, and forms of communication across disciplines like anthropology, linguistics, and semiotics.
2. In the mid-1960s, structural analyses of discourse were published that applied structural linguistics to literature, film, and other cultural forms. This sparked interest in systematically studying language use, discourse, and communication across fields.
3. By the early 1970s, discourse analysis was emerging as a new interdisciplinary field drawing from functional linguistics, text linguistics, and approaches studying indigenous narratives, conversation, and other genres. - Download as a PDF or view online for free
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